cryfest

Noun

cryfest (plural cryfests)

1. (informal) Something sad or moving, especially a film.
   • The Sin of Madelon Claudet was another hugely successful exemplar of the crime-and-punishment cryfests that shopgirls and housewives took to heart.1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 130
   • But if heartfelt, sensitive, talky, emotional cryfests have become scarce at the multiplex, we also have seen the rise of the He-Woman, the battling babe who can tote that gun and sling that punch and close that business deal.2002 May 26, Dave Gathman, “Movie Review”, in The Beacon-News, Aurora, Illinois

   Synonyms:

   sobfest, tearjerker

2. (informal) An episode of intense crying.
   • Knowing that I had but seconds left before my kid exploded into a full-blown cryfest and knowing that I absolutely had to have an article of clothing that could camouflage baby barf, I raced to the register with my sapling tucked under my arm.1997, Anne Voelckers Palumbo, The Stay-At-Home Mom's Survival Guide, White-Boucke Publishing, →ISBN, page 7
   • Tears were a part of who he was. But this wasn't the usual cryfest. It was a deluge.2010, Gregg Olsen, A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 234

   Synonyms:

   sobfest